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Wayne02

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We don't watch much tv around here anymore, and got tired of paying $65 per month for 70 something channels, only to watch less than a half dozen shows on a semi-regular basis. Dropped the cable, installed an outdoor antenna and ported the antenna feed to the one HD set, and four old tv's throughout the place.

Received 34 channels over the air. Once I deleted all the foreign language, shopping, audio, religious, and duplicate feed channels I end up with four or five that I might watch.

My favorites are 'retro tv', 'this', and pbs (cooking shows).

Channel 'This' has old movies, maybe these are old movies that didn't make the cut to be shown on the old movie cable channel, but some of them have been pretty good. One I watched last night was not that great but it had Robert Duval in it and I generally like his stuff. Don't know the name, only got to see the last half of it, but Duval was a landowner back in the slave days, drank too much, fired a lot of rounds at imaginary bad-guys, and seemed to have Alzheimers. Kind of a strange movie.

Retro tv has all kinds of classic stuff like A-team, rockford, kojack, one adam 12, and I'm watching Rifleman right now. What type/caliber of rifle is that which Conner is using? From the opening scene it looks like he may have been the originator of the bump-fire technique. ;) Pretty handy with that rifle he is.

I've been without cable for a week now and while I'm going to miss the five shows I used to watch, I guess it will just have to be A-team and Knightrider for the win. :D

Anybody else use over the air broadcasts for tv?
 
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Cable is a rip-off! If you could choose chanels instead of the **** they want you to watch, it would be OK.

I dumped it and watch R-tv too.

The Riflemans 44-40 has a screw in the lever to trip the trigger when closed.
 
Wayne02 said:
My favorites are 'retro tv', 'this', and pbs (cooking shows).

Channel 'This' has old movies,
Retro tv has all kinds of classic stuff like A-team, rockford, kojack, one adam 12, and I'm watching Rifleman right now. What type/caliber of rifle is that which Conner is using?

Anybody else use over the air broadcasts for tv?
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Bat Masterson, Banacek, McCloud, Wagon Train, Laramie, Dragnet, Outer Limits, Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, Elvira... plenty of good stuff on broadcast TV! There’s golf on right now. :)

The Mrs and I bought this house in 1993 and we have never paid for TV programming. I installed a good antenna on the roof (one of the only ones in the sub) and we never looked back. 18 years at $50 per month adds up to $10,800 plus interest and counting.

The Rifleman used a Winchester 1892 Trapper Carbine that was modified with a large loop lever and a trigger trip screw. It was probably a .44-40, but it could have been a .38-40. I'm sure he was shooting 5 in 1 blanks in the show.
 
I got DISH and love it for the price. For about $24 a month, you can get more tv than you can watch and it is in high def and digital for better viewing.
 
First time I've seen a Benny Hill show, some good looking gals on that show. They are probably all 105 years old now, eh?
 
the "best" part of cable and/or dish t.v. are the advertising programs between 2am and 5am, thats part of the $100++ package each month. and then you get a phone call from the cable folks wanting to know if you would like to subscribe to more packages and pay more???????????????????
 
I canceled my cable when they raised it 20%. It went from 10 bucks a month to 12 bucks a month, outrageous! That was in 1978. Haven't missed it since.
 
I had the previous owner cancel their cable when I moved in to my present house a few years ago. I don't watch enough to justify the expense. What really chaps me, though, is that, after all the hype about how fantastic the new digital broadcast signal would be, it isn't. About the only thing I watch on any regular basis is college football in the fall, and much of the time when I'm trying to watch a game, the signal breaks up. The area stations are blaming it on the FCC, whom they say cut their power back during the digital changeover. Whatever or whoever is responsible, I'm not too happy when it happens.

Oh well, in the greater scheme of things, I guess it's trivia.

Andy
 
My TV went on the fritz two years ago this coming April. I kept meaning to replace it but never got around to it. Now I find that I don't miss it and can't see buying another one. Looking back, I can't believe that I spent so many hours in front of that thing.
 
I stopped paying for TV about eight years ago. Instead I buy movies when I find a good sale (3-for-$20 or on the $5 rack at Target), and spend ten bucks a month for NetFlix.
 
s&wchad said:
Bat Masterson, Banacek, McCloud, Wagon Train, Laramie, Dragnet, Outer Limits, Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, Elvira... plenty of good stuff on broadcast TV! There’s golf on right now. :)

The Mrs and I bought this house in 1993 and we have never paid for TV programming. I installed a good antenna on the roof (one of the only ones in the sub) and we never looked back. 18 years at $50 per month adds up to $10,800 plus interest and counting.

The Rifleman used a Winchester 1892 Trapper Carbine that was modified with a large loop lever and a trigger trip screw. It was probably a .44-40, but it could have been a .38-40. I'm sure he was shooting 5 in 1 blanks in the show.
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It wasn't a Trapper. Full-size 20" SRC. Being 6'5" helps to give you the long arms needed to spin that long a gun.
 
At the urging of its citizens, our small community decided to up for our own local gig, costing a few million - we have fiber optics, providing phone, TV, and internet for about one hundred bucks. The best part is local customer service... can't beat that, and faster than a locomotive!

Pete
 
My brother and I own the home we grew up in with our family. When I was 4 or 5, I can remember being outside playing in the yard when some guys in a truck pulled up and started talking to my mom about something. She quickly sent them on their way.

It turns out they were with the only cable company in the area and were offering to run cable to our house for free. Not install it, but run it to the pole so we COULD get it.

Well, if you've read any of my posts talking about my house, you may recall I live rather far back in the woods. Over these past 20ish years the woods have grown in thicker and thicker. Now, we cannot even get cable ran to the house if we wanted it. Oh well.

We have over the air digital. On a good day I get 7 channels.
 
Hey Ski,Is that the new digital box that you can get from W-mart?
How well does it work when the weather is bad?
I should have got one when the rebate was available.
 
DeathGrip said:
Hey Ski,Is that the new digital box that you can get from W-mart?
How well does it work when the weather is bad?
I should have got one when the rebate was available.
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Yep. It's one of the ones you can find in most electronic stores (the kind you could have bought with the coupon / rebate program).

If it gets windy I might lose two channels completely. Sometimes I'll get pixels and sound loss in the wind. I get fox pretty strong as well as ABC. CBS comes and goes. I usually get it but haven't had good luck this winter. If you have a good shot at the broadcast towers I'm sure they work pretty well. For me, the broadcasts comes from the South West.. I point the antenna to the North East to get ABC... I get the bounce off of a big hill.
 
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